Matt Ball
Principal at Heisencoder Consulting LLC
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Ball is a Principal software engineer in Boulder, Colorado with two decades of engineering experience and a 14-year focused track record building scalable data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack systems. He brings deep expertise in Python and Java, Terraform-driven infrastructure on AWS and GCP, and practical experience consolidating monorepos and automating CI/CD with custom GitHub Actions. His background includes high-scale backend work at Google powering invoicing systems, standards leadership in cryptography (IEEE P1619.x), and shipping data platforms used by healthcare teams. Now running a part-time consulting practice, he combines hands-on delivery with process improvements—SDLC, hiring, and compliance—to make teams more efficient. Outside immediate roles, he’s notable for bridging storage/crypto standards and modern data engineering, a mix that surfaces in both secure systems design and pragmatic developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
data-modeling10
analytics10
dbt10
business-intelligence10
sql10
slack10
transform10
code-behind9
linux9
terminal-emulator9
windows9
elt9
opengl9
gpu9
bsd9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
heisencoder/XTS-AES
Oct 2011 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 8 years 8 months
heisencoder/tab-shortcuts
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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